Talking About Our Pics

[Anne ❀]

From time to time I come across an unusual word when I'm reading comments at 365. For instance, I don't recall having heard the word "whilst" before 365. I'm sure I use words that some find unusual too. I'm curious to know of other words that 365'ers have seen here which they find unusual.

[Jani M]

For a Finn the list is very long ... :-) Some words & terms here :

[Jase]

I just had "wickedywahwahwicked" posted on one of mine =)

[Anne ❀]

@janmaki very cool collection ... and oh so logical in many cases, outerior, for example! i think it may be you who got me thinking about this whole think in the first place when someone asked for the "v"ersatile word .....

[Anne ❀]

@jasehoad following you will be interesting ... fan-dangle might come in handy sometime too.

[Jase]

@sunnygreenwood I was keeping that one for myself! ;)

[Michael Elliott]

Some of the new ones to me that I love and have incorporated into my vocab are as follows:

Cracking - as in that's a cracking shot!
Pants - Ugh the shot didnt work - it was just pants!
Brick Lane - Ok honey I'm going to Brick Lane for a shot (excuse to go out with friends)
Fav-ulous - wow that shot is so good it's fav-ulous!

[Michael Elliott]

@sunnygreenwood :
Some of the new ones to me that I love and have incorporated into my vocab are as follows:

Cracking - as in that's a cracking shot!
Pants - Ugh the shot didnt work - it was just pants!
Brick Lane - Ok honey I'm going to Brick Lane for a shot (excuse to go out with friends)
Fav-ulous - wow that shot is so good it's fav-ulous!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

I can't think of any unusual words right now but I love some of the words our English friends use. Whilst is one of them. When we say "right away" I hear them say "straight away." Love it. I also love how they spell "colour" and we spell "color." Language is wonderful.

[Kerry Marsden]

For a while, I did 'A word a day' where my dad would tell me a word, and I would look it up in a dictionary and then attempt to incorporate it into my caption for my photo of the day. Some I already knew, but most I had to look up. Points to anyone who can give definitions of every single one without the aid of a dictionary...

palimpsest
colloquy
ineluctable
escutcheon
susurration
paragon
oncology
ergophobia
refulgence
Lilliputian
fritiniency
solecism
smorgasbord
syzygy
crepuscular
penumbra
lachrymose
scaphoid
chimera
opalescent
crenellations
redolent
immutable
arcane
fecundity
trilithons
luminary
dipsomania
flummery
paraphernalia
didactically

I think that is all of them, although there may be more that I haven't found yet. Also, more than once I have found that my captions take up more space than my photo, for example http://365project.org/katiegc24/365/2011-04-21 and http://365project.org/katiegc24/365/2011-09-01

Also, in reply to @mittens - I love all the differences between American and British English, although some of them annoy me somewhat - favourite/favorite, practise/practice, and realise/realize are just some of the things that drive me up the wall! But, weirdly, I am a Brit who wants to go to America for university... to study English. Crazy.

[Anne ❀]

@michaelelliott Thanks Michael, cracking list, they're all new to me! ;-) So glad you gave the definitions!

[Anne ❀]

@mittens yes, lots of differences! I love Jani' [@janmaki] list and am hoping some of the Brits and Aussie's weigh in here to see what we say that's unusual to them!

[Anne ❀]

@katiegc24 haha, very cool list, Kate! I could manage a few of them and that's it! You have some sophisticated commenters! I hope someone comes along who knows all those words! Studying English in America would be fun. You could try Canada too ... ;-)

[Kerry Marsden]

@sunnygreenwood Thanks :) I haven't yet met anyone who knows all of them.. except my dad, who didn't need to look any of them up because he knew them anyway.

There are loads of things that you say that are unusual for us Brits, and I'm sure there are lots of things we say that are unusual to you too..

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Every now and then, my Austalian followers use some of the best quips about my photos, but I'm at a loss as to what they are right now because they are so different! However, one word that has stuck in my mind came from a Scottish lass- scrummy! She used it to describe a picture of a slice of cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory. I believe it's a combination of scrumptuous and yummy- but who cares? It's just fun to say! Oh and I enjoy some of the postmodern jargon too- like keewwwl instead of cool. Whether it's an international vocabulary exchange or a cross-generational one, it's all fun to me!
This is a great thread!!

[Anne ❀]

@olivetreeann Thanks Ann! Glad you like the thread! I've picked up some new words!

[Anne ❀]

just got another one that I have to share: "holy macro!" from @summerfield lol, love it. But this thread is buried now, so probably no one will see this.

[MonicaE]

@katiegc24 I can give a definition for most of the words on your list without the aid of a dictionary. Full disclosure: my first language is Spanish, my family is of Italian descent, I went to a German school when I was very young then tranferred and finished my schooling in a French one. I studied Latin and also learned English along the way. Oh, I also learned Portuguese while living in Rio for a year.

[Jen Hudson]

Re hearing what the Brits may say. Although this is not directly photo speak, I have Canadian relatives and the thing I notice most is that they will use one word in certain instances. E.g. How are you, everyone says, I'm good. We will give you a whole list. Neat, is another word, again, Britis use a whole load of words to describe something. Its only nearly the same language!